Browse published material including veterinary books, periodicals and pamphlets.

Explore in here for early veterinary writing by the forefathers of the profession; descriptions of historic methods and cases; and anonymous backbiting between the professors of competing veterinary schools.

RCVS Vet History is a five year project, in which the historically rich, but previously untapped, collections of the RCVS will be preserved and made more accessible to the public. The project will culminate in two major public outputs...

Contents Include: Translator’s Preface; Index of the Chapters. Book First; Index of the Chapters. Book Second; Index of the Chapters. Book Third; Index of the Chapters. Book Fourth; Original Words frequently used in this Translations; The Preface; Book I. Chapter I. Of the Signs whereby the Sickness of Animals may be known…

http://rcvsvethistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/featVeg-eng-0006.jpg16061138Helena Clarksonhttp://www.rcvsvethistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VH-newlogo-v2.pngHelena Clarkson1748-01-31 10:52:072018-12-12 12:45:05Vegetius Renatus, – “Of the Distemper of Horses, and of the Art of Curing them: as also of the Diseases of Oxen, and of the Remedies proper for them; and of the best Method to preserve them in Health, and restore them when sick, and to prevent the Spreading and Communication of Infectious Distempers according to the Practice of ancient Romans. Translated into English by the Author of the Translation of Columella” (1748)

Articles include: Anatomy of the Horse; On Soundness; Fracture of the Os Calcis; Fracture of the Humerus in a Cow; On Croton Seed and Its Farina; A Case of Neurotomy; Tumour and Stricture in the Small Intestines;…

Articles include: Lectures on Horses. The Haunch and Thigh; The Ancient History of the Ox; A Case of Vomition in a Cow, Which Lasted Six Weeks; Caused by a Dilation of the Oesophagus at its Inferior Extremity, and Terminating Fatally;…

Articles include: Lectures on Horses; Contributions to Zoological Pathology. VI. – On the normal Structure and Abnormal Conditions of the larynx in the Horse. Muscles of the Larynx; A supposed Case of Death in a Horse from Tuberculated Affection of the Lungs;…

Articles include: ; On the Conformation of Horses with Reference to their feet, and to Shoeing; Frightful Wound Inflicted by a Horse, of the 13th Light Dragoon, on his Own Body, On the Occasion of the Late Encampment on Chobham Common; Prolapsus Ani; Ulcerated Intestine; Disease of the Rectum; Belladonna in Tetanus;…

Articles include: Diseases of Animals in India Similar to Asiatic Cholera; Curious Case; Running Horses at Immature Ages; Prevention of the Sale and Exposure of Glandered Horses; James Turner’s Letter to his Brother Veterinarians; Review. The Deteriorated Condition of our Saddle-Horses, the Causes and the Remedy. The State of our Cavalry, and the Imperfect System under which this Force, and that of our Army Generally, is Administered;…

Articles include: Dislocation of the Patella; Rupture of the Pericardium in the Horse; Weakness of the Loins – (Kumuree); Worm in the Eye; Laminitis. The Late Jno. Field’s Account of Laminitis (Taken from his Posthumous Veterinary Records.) Causes and Symptoms of Laminitis or Founder;…

Articles include: A Principle Veterinary Surgeon in India; Some Thoughts Concerning the Accepted Physiology of the Heart; Methods of Shoeing Irregular and Regular Cavalry Horses in India; Roaring; Fatal Case of Prostration or Collapse, Produced by a Shock to the Nervous System from Injury;…

Articles include: The Introductory Address; Communications and Cases. Seamoiditis; or the Seat of Obscure Leg-Lameness of Horses Unmasked; Case of Internal Hemorrhage; On the Standing and Education of the Veterinary Surgeon;…

RCVS VET HISTORY is an RCVS Knowledge initiative, for the preservation and promotion of the historical collections of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, made possible with the support of The Alborada Trust.

The Alborada Trust is a charitable trust founded in 2001. Its aims are the funding of medical and veterinary causes, research and education – and the relief of poverty and human and animal suffering, sickness and ill-health. Charity Registration No 1091660

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Trust (trading as RCVS Knowledge) is a registered Charity No. 230886. Registered as a Company limited by guarantee in England and Wales No. 598443.